THEY BURIED them on a north-facing slope in a field of wild herbs, overlooking the site of the massacre. There were 64 in total and the graves, piled high with brown soil, were laid out in a grid. The youngest was that of a four-year-old child.

IT ALL sounds very honourable. It all sounds oh-so-thoughtful. In reality, however, the proposal that Britain should introduce a special remembrance day for the Holocaust should be seen for what it is: tokenism.

THE BRITISH forensic team investigating war crimes in Kosovo has uncovered almost 80 decomposing bodies, some of them of women and children, in a stream outside the village of Blacrvka, the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, said in New York yesterday.

WE WERE not expecting a huge story in the opening week of Wimbledon but we got one. And the BBC did their utmost to bring the shock news to the nation. It began with Des Lynam interrupting his prepared spiel in his Wimbledon eyrie, and rolled on through all the main bulletins on BBC1. It was also headline news on Ceefax - yes, the BBC had actually retained some broadcasting rights to a sport by winning a new five-year contract for Wimbledon.

SHEIKH Fahad Al-Sabah - the member of Kuwait's royal family caught in a web of financial intrigue - plans to appeal against last week's High Court ruling which found him party to the misappropriation of $900m (pounds 560m) from the Kuwait Investment Office, writes Peter Koenig.

THE INTEREST in massacres, murders and dead bodies in Kosovo may seem tasteless, but it is justified. It is important to know exactly what has happened during and before the two-and-a-half months since the international observers were withdrawn and Slobodan Milosevic's forces had the run of the place.

GEOFFREY ROBERTSON may be right in stating that international criminal justice can be fair, but if this is the case it is certainly not demonstrated by the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic ("No right without wrong, no peace without justice", 30 May).

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND officials are optimistic that Uefa, football's European governing body, will not throw them out of Euro 2000 as punishment for the Irish government's refusal to grant visas to Yugoslav players.

AGREEMENT CAME after a very late night, a two-page document and several meetings with Slobodan Milosevic. Yesterday the man who brokered the deal that may have brought peace to Kosovo, the Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari, said his talks with the Yugoslav President and indicted war criminal were "very business-like". There were, Mr Ahtisaari added, "no voices raised in the discussions. We went through the paper. I tried to clarify the issues that were raised."